Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

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The Super Easy Baby Led Weaning Cookbook: 55 Simple Recipes to Introduce Your Baby to Solids’ by Tok-Hui Yeap RD CSP LD The goal of baby-led weaning is to expose your baby to delicious and nutritious foods in their natural state (without pureeing them first) to give your baby the freedom to explore the taste and textures of the food on their own timeline. The Big Book of Baby Led Weaning: 105 Organic, Healthy Recipes to Introduce Your Baby to Solid Foods’ by Aubrey Phelps MS RDN CLC

This delicious, nutritious collection of 120 family friendly recipes is paired with useful advice and essential tips to equip parents with the power to choose what’s best for their baby. Whilst purees provide an obvious bridge between liquid and solid foods, self-feeding offers a prime opportunity for babies to discover their natural abilities to explore a wide variety of tastes and textures, encouraging independence and good eating habits. Many parts of adding our fourth to our family were much different experiences than adding our three biological children. We have baby-led weaning beginner’s guides, books on baby-led weaning safety, nutrition, and more. We also have cookbooks to keep you excited about planning your baby’s weaning meals. While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach for babies, there are basic dos and don’ts to ensure our babies’ safety. Here are some basic tips:

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Simple & Safe Baby-Led Weaning: How to Integrate Foods, Master Portion Sizes, and Identify Allergies’ by Malina Malkani MS RDN CDN So far, we’ve talked about what BLW is, its benefits of it, and some tips on how to get started. Now that you have an idea of what BLW is and why you might want to try it, let’s take a look at some specific books that can help guide you through the process. The coughing and sputtering sounds that look and sound alarming are actually the baby dealing with the problem on their own.

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The biggest benefit I saw from Baby-Led Weaning was how my daughter did not put other things in her mouth. The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook: Delicious Recipes that’ll Help Your Baby Learn to Eat Solid Foods―and That the Whole Family Will Enjoy’ by Gill Rapley PhD, Tracey Murkett Whether you decide to use a baby-led weaning approach, spoon-feeding (often known as traditional weaning), or a combination of both, look for these readiness signsin your baby: Some experts recommend waiting until your baby is at least 6 months old before starting baby-led weaning. This gives them time to develop the coordination and motor skills needed to safely eat solid foods. The possibilities are endless when it comes to tongue technique, so have fun with it and you’ll be sure to find your partner’s sweet spot in no time. 8. Try the "wrist twist," or the "corkscrew" method.